This is a lot of text that is simply trying to rationalize the irrational. What is the point of responding point by point with logic and fact? It is no less fantastical than the mythology behind the Civil War and the neverending fake stories used to justify ugly behavior.
What Negri is trying to hide is the unavoidable fact that a minority of Americans voted for a known Mafia associate, inherited wealth elite and pampered nincompoop not because they truly believed he would follow the ever-wandering policy promises he made; Negri and his ilk are irrational and angry that a black man was a better conservative president than anything on offer at the GOP.
A precondition for cognitive dissonance is cognition, of which there is little demonstrated here. This is the pseudological rant of an angry toddler throwing tu quoque and “i’m a mirror you’re glue” non sequiturs in the imitation of reason, likely as part of a Kubler Rossian process of moving towards the realization that Negri and his fellows have made a colossal and avoidable mistake based on hubris and fundamental misapprehension of reality, just like the billionaire conspiracy he complains of would need to get one of their own in office….